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The DownBeat Keys, a Brooklyn-based hip-hop band featuring five Hamilton College alumni, will open for Jon Bon Jovi and The Kings of Suburbia on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at the Best Buy Theater in New York.

Jazz musician Paul Kogut ’88 was recently featured in Jazz Times after the release of his third album Turn of Phrase. Kogut grew up and studied in Utica with Carmen Caramanica.  He was taught later by Mick Goodrick, and a Hamilton course allowed him to travel for lessons with Pat Marino in Philadelphia.  He later attended the Manhattan School of Music, and then served as a lecturer in jazz guitar at Hamilton. He currently tours nationally in support of his music.

George Baker Jr. ’74 and Frank Vlossak ’89 have returned to Hamilton to share their real-world experience with 12 students through a unique Lobbying and Government Relations course. Baker and Vlossak, who hold the positions of distinguished lecturers of American Public Policy and Practice, previously co-taught the course in 2008.

Chilly and sometimes dreary weather couldn't put a damper on Fallcoming 2012,  as Hamilton celebrated the opening the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, honored Dan Dietrich II '64 as Volunteer of the Year, and recognized students' scholarships at the Helen and Doane Comstock '27 Memorial Luncheon.

From his former home at the peak of College Hill to the blue New York State Historic Marker outside his birthplace at Buttrick Hall, Elihu Root looms large over the campus as one of Hamilton’s favorite sons. Yet his legacy extends far beyond College Hill: 2012 marks the centennial of Root’s 1912 Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering work in international relations.

Will Gowen '11 was recently interviewed on the WCAX (the local CBS affiliate in Burlington) talk show "The :30" about his participation in the Farmer Training Program at the University of Vermont, a six-month certificate program in sustainable agriculture. The program gives students opportunities to learn from local farmers and to experience managing their own growing sites.  Students oversee “every component of growing” on a three acre plot and then sell vegetables every Tuesday at an on-campus farm stand. They also sell vegetables wholesale to Sodexo, UVM's Dining Hall Service, and have an 11-person CSA.

Each year classes that exhibit distinctive results in their generosity to Hamilton are awarded sterling silver performance cups by the Alumni Association and  lauded at the Fallcoming Recognition Dinner. This years winners are noted below.

Most people would not devote much time or energy into thinking about a bookshelf. For John Freyer ’95, however, this was not the case. Members of the Hamilton community gathered in the Chapel on Sept. 24 to hear Freyer, an assistant professor of photography at the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, discuss his passionate fascination of objects and how they define who we are as individuals.

Alumnus John Freyer ’95 , who decided to free himself from possessions and sell everything he owned on the Internet in a project called “All My Life for Sale,” will lecture at Hamilton on Monday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m., in the Chapel.

Can you imagine waking up at 6 a.m. on a Saturday and making a trip from Clinton to New York City and back in the same day? That’s exactly what a group of highly motivated Hamilton students did on September 15 as they attended the Career Center’s first Finance Bootcamp. Jennifer Hill ’87, CFO of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s investment bank, as well as Candace Browning P’10, the head of Global Research at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, hosted the event in New York at the Bank of America Tower.